Hello James, I've built the Marie Amelie, which is the same hull as yours but with the wheelhouse up for'd and a trawling gantry down aft.
I usually use a 2300m/amp,running a 385 brushed motor. ESC is the mtronics viper marine 15.
There's nowt wrong with using the battery you've got - just take it easy on the throttle.
Incidentally, it's a great little boat to sail - and with the flat transom she comes astern beautifully
Regards,
Ray.
Thanks Ray,
I have ordered the kit with same Mtroniks speedo and pretty standard servo.
I must admit I had thought about building the kit with the wheel house up front and building my own gantry.
I have to get my head round d building the hull first, all good fun.
On top of this I am helping my dad restore his old Graupner fireboat kit, we want to replace all the electronics with something much more modern, we are pretty sure he built it some time in the 70s. I need to hunt down some replacement universal couplings as the ones in the kit had gone brittle.
James